Ethics and International Affairs, Volume 16.2 (Fall 2002)

Many liberals would agree with revolutionaries that the social and economic
legacies of political oppression require rectification. Where liberals part
company with revolutionaries is over the nature and means of political struggle.
Whereas revolutionary warriors tend to dismiss their own responsibility for the
tragic costs of their struggle, liberals acknowledge that the advancement of
social justice and moral regeneration in the aftermath of violence and
oppression must begin with institutions of moral accounting, such as trials and
truth commissions, that, however imperfectly, revitalize notions of individual,
social, and political responsibility.

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